Winner Prime Minister’s Literary Awards – Fiction Category 2016 AU.

Short-listed Victorian Premier’s Literary Award – Fiction Category 2016 AU.

Short-listed ABA Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award 2016 AU.Short-listed Australian Book Industry Awards – Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2016 AU.Short-listed Miles Franklin Literary Award 2016 AU.Short-listed Queensland Literary Award – Fiction Category 2016 AU.Short-listed Barbara Jefferis Award 2016 AU.Long-listed Nita B Kibble Award for an Established Author 2016 AU.Long-listed Voss Literary Prize 2016 AU.Highly Commended James Tiptree Jr Literary Award 2017 US.Shortlisted Christina Stead Prize for Fiction – NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2017 AU.It confirms Charlotte Wood’s position as one of our most thoughtful, provocative and fearless truth-tellers, as she unflinchingly reveals us and our world to ourselves. With extraordinary echoes of The Handmaid’s Tale and Lord of the Flies, The Natural Way of Things is a compulsively readable, scarifying and deeply moving contemporary novel.

Most of all, it is the story of two friends, their sisterly love and courage. The Natural Way of Things is a gripping, starkly imaginative exploration of contemporary misogyny and corporate control, and of what it means to hunt and be hunted. Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in an abandoned property in the middle of a desert in a story of two friends, sisterly love and courage – a gripping, starkly imaginative exploration of contemporary misogyny and corporate control, and of what it means to hunt and be hunted.

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